Christmas Joy Offering: Supporting past, present, and future leaders

When is the Christmas Joy Offering received?

TThe Christmas Joy Offering is traditionally received during the Advent Season. However, you can help sustain the important PC(USA) ministries and programs that are supported by the Christmas Joy Offering by making an online gift at any time throughout the year.

How is my gift used?

A gift to the Christmas Joy Offering helps provide financial assistance to current and former church workers and their families and also enables deserving students to attend Presbyterian-related racial ethnic colleges and schools.

Resources

Use these resources for promoting the Christmas Joy Offering in your church. Documents will open in a new tab when clicked below. To order resources directly or to check your congregation's standing order, call Presbyterian Distribution Services at (800) 524-2612 or email pds@pcusa.org.

About

The four churchwide Special Offerings of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) play an important role in defining
what it means to be a connectional church in the twenty-first century, bringing together the diversity of the
PC(USA) to focus and take faith-based action on shared concerns. The Offerings offer opportunities for
partnership, learning, and witness and profoundly affect the life of the church as a collective witness to Jesus
Christ’s love for the whole church.